The sun had set behind the long line of the Hulver woods, and there was a flight of homing rooks across the amber sky.
Near the station some children flitted past, like little white miller moths homing through the dusk.
Her mother was dead, her father and the village would have none of her: the hominginstinct is very strong, or she would scarcely have returned, knowing the traditions of the place.
In some homing pigeon races, the birds have made speed records of over a mile a minute for many hours and have flown over a thousand miles.
Homing pigeons or as they are commonly called, carriers, are not bred for special markings like fancy pigeons but because of their power and speed in flight.
If a well-bred homing pigeon fails to return to his home loft it is almost a certainty that he is either forcibly detained or that he has been killed by hunters or hawks.
The official long-distance record for a homing pigeon is 1689.
The homing instinct, or sense, is present in some mammals, but it is by no means so phenomenal as in some species of birds.
Individual horses, dogs and cats have done wonderful things under the propulsion of the homing instinct, but that instinct is by no means general throughout those species.
We can go no farther than to say that while the homing instinct of certain species of birds is quite well known, the mental process by which it functions is practically unknown.
The direction instinct of the homing pigeon is marvelous, but we know that that instinct does not leap full- fledged from the nest.
IR] The experiments, both of Sir John Lubbock and Mr. Romanes, show that the homing instinct of bees is largely the result of individual observation.
Little boats, like homing doves, came flying across the vast expanse of waves, their sails a splendor of copper in the fading light.
So completely had Celestina learned to efface her personality and her inclinations that they reasoned she was utterly without preferences; that she lacked the homing instinct; and was quite as happy in one place as in another.
The boy has all the homing qualities you desired in an express," he said to Stuart.
It always proved of the greatest aid to Perry and me; nevertheless we were anxious to enlarge our map, for we at least were not endowed with the homing instinct.
Mountains, rivers, and seas may have to be gone around, but never once does his sense of direction fail him--the homing instinct is supreme.
One second she sat very still, then a dancing light leaped sparkling into her eyes; a flock of dimples chased each other around her lips like swallows circling their homing place at twilight.
And the tendency of middle-aged Pittsburgh millionaires to marry chorus-girls is notoriously like the homing instinct of pigeons.
Like a homing bird, by grace of the rude map and Limping George, she had come to the lake where the Indians had camped in the winter, and she could have gone blindfolded from the lake to Roaring Bill's cabin.
The homing power of the carrier pigeon appears to be a special development of a natural capacity, as is also its swiftness and endurance in flight.
It can only be explained by the great development of the homing instinct which man has brought about in their sympathetic souls.
When the height of homing flight of the host of herons had passed, I noticed a new element of restlessness, and here and there among the foliage appeared dull-brown figures.
The oxen, when they went outside, came shambling up the slope to the oak tree where they were wont to spend the night near the prairie schooner that had been their homing place for many a month.
In so far as the former process is depended upon, means are devised to make sure that the notes shall persistently return to the issuer even against his will--they shall have good homing power.
We have seen that there is very little in the new system to secure that the notes shall have good homing power--shall get home by what we have called the driving-in process.
Another disability which contributes to the homing power of a bank note, and which is actually used in the case of our old note, is not used with this new note--I mean, the fact that they are not receivable for customs dues.
In the first place, in the absence of good homing power, a volume of notes in excess of business needs would not necessarily cause an accumulation of those notes in the vaults of the bank issuing them.
On the whole, then, it must be acknowledged that, in so far as homingpower is dependent on giving to outsiders strong and persistent motives for sending notes home, the new law is not altogether satisfactory.
As between different districts, the case for the homing power of the new notes is rather stronger, since reserve banks are prohibited from paying out the notes of other reserve banks under penalty of a 10 per cent.
Well, that was about the mountaineer's homing instinct.
That on the Homing Instinct (a much better word than the French orientation).
Still I am sure you must have heard from your paper on thehoming instinct if the publication in which it appeared reached the quarters it ought to have reached.
Ross thought back to their first voyage on the homing derelict.
True, they may find interest in another direction; but I think with most of us—excepting when we are very young and very inexperienced—the homing instinct is strong.
Windward Passage, before the intermittent southeasterly breezes of that stifling season, homing for Tortuga, the natural rendezvous of the dispersed vessels.
Floating in his Archer, he could be his own, less easily identifiable, less easily hit command post, while he fired his own homing missiles at the far-off radar specks of the attackers.
And against new, homing rockets--if Parnay really had them--it would be almost useless.
They were tiny rockets that could flame during the last second of a long flight, homing in on a target by means of a self-contained and marvelously miniaturized radar guidance system.
The dub that owns the homing pigeons," came the ready reply, which caused Ned to smile and nod his head in approbation.
When they heard all that had happened and how the lucky finding of the dead homing pigeon with its telltale message had betrayed the plans of the conspirators, they could hardly express their feelings toward the scouts.
Some puncher may be a homing pigeon fancier and sends a bird to his home, many miles away, once in so often.
Find the puncher who's got the homing pigeon fancy and you'll have the leader of the spies at the Double Cross, if that's where the bird started from.
What they call a homing pigeon, you mean, don't you, Ned?
The drowsy hum of insects pervades the autumnal air, the homing rooks make a pleasant sound in the tall elms beside the Hall, and the distant lowing of cattle comes faintly to our ears.
At one side, winging in from the glow of morning, she drew in the strong-winged flight of a flock of sea swallows, peacefully homing toward the far-distant ocean.
She was going to take Katy with her in order that she might see Peter Morrison's location and the house for his dream lady, growing at the foot of the mountain like a gay orchid homingon a forest tree.
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